Antique Blackened Red Clay Pipe Bowl with Face folk art relief carved portrait About 75 of them here

About 75 of them here

I might be as inclined to lay it on a tabletop with a piece of glass over it as to hang it on the wall

care and attention to fine detail

and many years of use left in it

which the other bees would eat through to release the queen once she had been accepted into the hive

Antique Blackened Red Clay Pipe Bowl with Face folk art relief carved portrait About 75 of them hereI know this blackened redware pipe bowl was found in Virginia and dates to the late 19th very early 20th century. I don't believe it is Native American, but think the face was meant to represent a Native American warrrior, with incised patterns crossing the cheeks to suggest war paint. To my eye, an extremely soulful face it is, with those marks reading equally as tears, and lowered eyes and pointy chin enhancing a sense of sorrow or mourning. There